Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There wuz a bit of trouble outside the school gates when Sinead O'Connor said she was n't coming on the trip because she disapproved of buzzes and then she got on and took the best seat , ie the one at the back where me and Graham normally sit and smoke No6 . |
| 2 | Productive activity was carried out by peasants , who lived on and cultivated the land which was controlled by the feudal lords . |
| 3 | He hopped in and unzipped the rucksack , taking out only the scope which he pointed back towards the lakeside . |
| 4 | Somewhere in the period between the time that early man first made for himself a ‘ god ’ , and the time when evidence of ‘ god ’ worship was left for later generations to find , the use of ‘ gods ’ for purposes which were largely intended to create unfair privileges , and were therefore a source of evil , gradually crept in and became a widespread part of the social scene . |
| 5 | After dark the men of the SAS crept in and obtained the necessary tentage and equipment to set themselves up , including even a piano for the officers ' mess . |
| 6 | Never having read a word of Norse ( Old Icelandic ) before , Lewis plunged in and attempted a few lines of Laxdaela Saga . |
| 7 | I had spent four hours catching nothing and he simply swooped down and lifted a trout of at least 2lb from under my nose . |
| 8 | Charles got in and slammed the door . |
| 9 | He got in and pressed the button for the first floor . |
| 10 | ‘ I came to tell you something , but no one was here so I got in and took a look . ’ |
| 11 | He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems . |
| 12 | She got in and held the door-open button . |
| 13 | Then he straightened suddenly and returned the paperweight to its place on his desk . |
| 14 | I hauled back the wheel and the plane mushed down and hit the water . |
| 15 | To get around this limitation Lotus Microsoft and Intel got together and invented a special type of memory — expanded memory or Lotus-Intel-Microsoft ( LIM ) memory . |
| 16 | The defender said : ‘ When we lost 5-0 at Liverpool a couple of weeks ago we all got together and had a heart-to-heart . |
| 17 | ‘ The idea was developed by four brewers who got together and devised the system for brewing beer in a container ’ says Smillie . |
| 18 | Without the motor car in mind , I mean for instance , we had Oxford , Reading and Swindon it was suggested a few years ago , that they got together and formed the Thames Valley United . |
| 19 | Carl Perkins and myself , with DJ and everybody , got together and did an album in April . |
| 20 | A number of them , including Matthew Robert Burns , q.v. , and Walter Geikie q.v. , got together and established the Congregational Church for the Deaf and Dumb , Edinburgh , in June 1830 . |
| 21 | In 1879 Pearce , the Owen cousins , and the Rev. Samuel Smith of St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London got together and established the Winchester Diocesan Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission . |
| 22 | Then they moved on and repeated the whole performance 's two streets away . |
| 23 | Leila Williams ( a former beauty queen ) and Chris Trace were its virgin presenters , the show a seven-week experiment that caught on and gave the world John Noakes ' arse , the most famous shitting elephant ever , many an expedition to Ceylon , sticky-backed plastic , ‘ soldier dolls ’ , umpteen dogs , Sarah Greene ( cheers ) and a hell of a lot of jeeps paid for by old forks and ring-pulls . |
| 24 | In books , pamphlets and speeches women drew on and re-worked the languages of purity , religion , medicine and even mysticism to develop a critical feminist discourse . |
| 25 | But when he knelt down and tested the earth with his hands , some of the tracks seemed fresh . |
| 26 | The friar knelt down and tickled the cat between his ears . |
| 27 | At one point he knelt down and parted the heather with his hands , so sure was he that he had found it , but there was nothing but the scree and the tiny plants which grew amongst it . |
| 28 | Eventually they died and sank down and joined the compost at the base of the leaves which , in fact , helped nourish the plant . |
| 29 | They excelled in and developed the arts of building , of engineering and of town planning . |
| 30 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |